Dear Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni,
Your recent statement demanding rank turners on which the balls starts turning square from day one onwards not only smacks of sheer arrogance, an abject lack of knowledge of how pitches are prepared, but above all misplaced and highly erroneous understanding of the hallowed cricketing concept titled "home advantage"........
Every side worth it's salt does definitely play to it's strength and does make an effort towards adding extra teeth to it's bowling attack by giving them the added advantage of favourable pitches, but, what you have failed to take cognisance of is the indisputable fact that these pitches are invariably sporting in nature and give both bowlers and batsmen an almost equal opportunity of coming out on top and not veritable minefields on which the batsmen are nothing more than sitting ducks........
Gone are those days when the Indian opening bowlers simply used to take the shine of the ball and then hand over the same to the spin quartet for further usage, neither does India have spin bowlers of the eminence, ability and sagacity of the famed spin quartet and neither are the present lot of medium pacers mere passengers whose primary job is to simply get rid of the shine on the red cricketing cherry........
You are also putting paid to the hopes and aspirations of both up and coming speedsters as well as those already operating on the cricket circuit with some distinction with your nonsensical demand as the dice is already heavily loaded against these pacemen on pitches that neither offer them pace of the deck nor sideways or lateral movement and by asking for rank turners you seem hell bent upon sounding their death knell and sending them into oblivion.......
Have you even spared a though about the repercussions that these rank turners are going to have on the careers of both present day as well as future Indian batsmen, Indian batsmen have more often than not struggled on seam and swing friendly pitches outside the subcontinent and you are only compounding their misery by exerting undue pressure on curators to produce rank turners in place of pitches that offer the barest hint of bounce and swing, thereby providing them with a heaven sent opportunity of acquitting themselves for sterner test ahead.........
The visiting England team also has in it's ranks a certain gentleman who answers to the name of Graeme Swann, well for your kind information, the very same Mr. Swann is arguably the best off spinner on the present day cricketing scene and may just prove to be more than a handful for the young Indian batsmen looking to cement their places within the team for the next five years and more............
Respected Sir, you would be better served by focussing your energies on honing your pathetic keeping skills and paying greater attention to collection as well as catching techniques and getting a batting clinic from master technicians of the likes of a certain Rahul Sharad Dravid and Sunil Manohar Gavaskar who are eminently capable of teaching you more than a thing or two about meeting the ball under your chin and the art of playing the ball with your bat and pad close together rather than the ungainly lunges and hideous swishes that seem to have become an integral part of your batting repertoire...........
Kindly justify your place in the side before beginning to make such outlandish demands as you have done little or nothing of note in the recent past that warrants your continuance in Indian test colours, the entire world and it's cousin is well acquainted with the fact that you owe your captaincy as well as place in the side to the benevolence of a certain Mr. N.Srinivasan, so don't perpetrate that widely held belief by repeatedly failing both as a captain as well as wicket keeper/batsman........
Raving and ranting is the exclusive domain od lunatics and loonies, so kindly leave these antics to them and concentrate your energies on furthering your cause unless you want to see your name added to the two afore mentioned ranks, as for the preparation of pitches, well the curators going around are more than eminently qualified to handle the same and certainly don't need unsolicited advice from a novice like you in this regard.........
Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours, I remain,
Yours Faithfully,
Sundeep Chopra,
an avowed Indian cricket fan...........
Your recent statement demanding rank turners on which the balls starts turning square from day one onwards not only smacks of sheer arrogance, an abject lack of knowledge of how pitches are prepared, but above all misplaced and highly erroneous understanding of the hallowed cricketing concept titled "home advantage"........
Every side worth it's salt does definitely play to it's strength and does make an effort towards adding extra teeth to it's bowling attack by giving them the added advantage of favourable pitches, but, what you have failed to take cognisance of is the indisputable fact that these pitches are invariably sporting in nature and give both bowlers and batsmen an almost equal opportunity of coming out on top and not veritable minefields on which the batsmen are nothing more than sitting ducks........
Gone are those days when the Indian opening bowlers simply used to take the shine of the ball and then hand over the same to the spin quartet for further usage, neither does India have spin bowlers of the eminence, ability and sagacity of the famed spin quartet and neither are the present lot of medium pacers mere passengers whose primary job is to simply get rid of the shine on the red cricketing cherry........
You are also putting paid to the hopes and aspirations of both up and coming speedsters as well as those already operating on the cricket circuit with some distinction with your nonsensical demand as the dice is already heavily loaded against these pacemen on pitches that neither offer them pace of the deck nor sideways or lateral movement and by asking for rank turners you seem hell bent upon sounding their death knell and sending them into oblivion.......
Have you even spared a though about the repercussions that these rank turners are going to have on the careers of both present day as well as future Indian batsmen, Indian batsmen have more often than not struggled on seam and swing friendly pitches outside the subcontinent and you are only compounding their misery by exerting undue pressure on curators to produce rank turners in place of pitches that offer the barest hint of bounce and swing, thereby providing them with a heaven sent opportunity of acquitting themselves for sterner test ahead.........
The visiting England team also has in it's ranks a certain gentleman who answers to the name of Graeme Swann, well for your kind information, the very same Mr. Swann is arguably the best off spinner on the present day cricketing scene and may just prove to be more than a handful for the young Indian batsmen looking to cement their places within the team for the next five years and more............
Respected Sir, you would be better served by focussing your energies on honing your pathetic keeping skills and paying greater attention to collection as well as catching techniques and getting a batting clinic from master technicians of the likes of a certain Rahul Sharad Dravid and Sunil Manohar Gavaskar who are eminently capable of teaching you more than a thing or two about meeting the ball under your chin and the art of playing the ball with your bat and pad close together rather than the ungainly lunges and hideous swishes that seem to have become an integral part of your batting repertoire...........
Kindly justify your place in the side before beginning to make such outlandish demands as you have done little or nothing of note in the recent past that warrants your continuance in Indian test colours, the entire world and it's cousin is well acquainted with the fact that you owe your captaincy as well as place in the side to the benevolence of a certain Mr. N.Srinivasan, so don't perpetrate that widely held belief by repeatedly failing both as a captain as well as wicket keeper/batsman........
Raving and ranting is the exclusive domain od lunatics and loonies, so kindly leave these antics to them and concentrate your energies on furthering your cause unless you want to see your name added to the two afore mentioned ranks, as for the preparation of pitches, well the curators going around are more than eminently qualified to handle the same and certainly don't need unsolicited advice from a novice like you in this regard.........
Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours, I remain,
Yours Faithfully,
Sundeep Chopra,
an avowed Indian cricket fan...........
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